Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] dt-bindings: Introduce interconnect binding

[Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@codeaurora.org>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 01:56:32PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/26/2018 07:34 AM, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 01:02:15PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 05:01:45PM +0300, Georgi Djakov wrote:
> >>>This binding is intended to represent the relations between the interconnect
> >>>controllers (providers) and consumer device nodes. It will allow creating links
> >>>between consumers and interconnect paths (exposed by interconnect providers).
> >>As I mentioned in person, I want to see other SoC families using this
> >>before accepting. They don't have to be ready for upstream, but WIP
> >>patches or even just a "yes, this works for us and we're going to use
> >>this binding on X".
> >>
> >>Also, I think the QCom GPU use of this should be fully sorted out. Or
> >>more generically how this fits into OPP binding which seems to be never
> >>ending extended...
> >This is a discussion I wouldn't mind having now.  To jog memories, this is what
> >I posted a few weeks ago:
> >
> >https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/246117/
> >
> >This seems like the easiest way to me to tie the frequency and the bandwidth
> >quota together for GPU devfreq scaling but I'm not married to the format and
> >I'll happily go a few rounds on the bikeshed if we can get something we can
> >be happy with.
> >
> >Jordan
> 
> Been meaning to send this out for a while, but caught up with other stuff.
> 
> That GPU BW patch is very specific to device to device mapping and
> doesn't work well for different use cases (Eg: those that  can
> calculate based on use case, etc).
> 
> Interconnect paths have different BW (bandwidth) operating points
> that they can support. For example: 1 GB/s, 1.7 GB/s, 5GB/s, etc.
> Having a mapping from GPU or CPU to those are fine/necessary, but we
> still need a separate BW OPP table for interconnect paths to list
> what they can actually support.
> 
> Two different ways we could represent BW OPP tables for interconnect paths:
> 1.  Represent interconnect paths (CPU to DDR, GPU to DDR, etc) as
> devices and have OPPs for those devices.
> 
> 2. We can have a "interconnect-opp-tables" DT binding similar to
> "interconnects" and "interconnect-names". So if a device GPU or
> Video decoder or I2C device needs to vote on an interconnect path,
> they can also list the OPP tables that those paths can support.
> 
> I know Rob doesn't like (1). But I'm hoping at least (2) is
> acceptable. I'm open to other suggestions too.
> 
> Both (1) and (2) need BW OPP tables similar to frequency OPP tables.
> That should be easy to add and Viresh is open to that. I'm open to
> other options too, but the fundamental missing part is how to tie a
> list of BW OPPs to interconnect paths in DT.
> 
> Once we have one of the above two options, we can use the
> required-opps field (already present in kernel) for the mapping
> between GPU to a particular BW need (suggested by Viresh during an
> in person conversation).

Assuming we are willing to maintain the bandwidth OPP tables and the
names / phandles needed to describe a 1:1 GPU -> bandwidth mapping
I'm okay with required-opps but for the sake of argument how would
required-opps work for a device that needs to vote multiple paths
for a given OPP?

Jordan

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